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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: N/A
Cool down guys! You have some french guys in this
group. How do you say in us... the rainbow warrior was
a 'colateral damage'? :-)
And about the metric system, everybody agree that it's
easier than the imperial inches! Even in GB they're
changing their system. It's just a question of habit.
Nobody's pushing you to use it, but the industry will,
especially if you want to sell outside us.
laurent
--- Rob Innes <innespace@jett.net> wrote:
> Right on Roger! Screw those French Bastards! I'm
> still mad about them sinking our Greenpeace
> flagship; the Rainbow Warrior. They blew a metric
> sized hole in her side. Incidentally, I'm diving on
> the wreck when I go back to New Zealand in January
> so I can check out the damage first hand. If we
> claim to be waging a war on Terror, let's start with
> the French!
>
> Rob
>
> ps. Rebuttal's welcome
>
> rjune@fuse.net wrote:
>
> > OK TIME FOR YOU TO GET OF YOUR HIGH HORSE
> >
> > Unbelievably, the silly dispute over the metric
> system still exists. Given the particulars of the
> development and spread of the French system of
> measurement, any individual easily realizes the
> total absurdity of the metric system.
> >
> > Consider how the French of the 1700's were so
> intent on making an exact, standard measurement that
> could be replicated. They insisted on finding a
> standard in nature that would be unchanging for the
> base of the metric system. So the brilliant French
> scientists decided on measuring the length of an arc
> of a meridian that reaches from the North Pole to
> the Equator to determine the base of the new
> measuring system. The meter supposedly equals one
> ten-millionth the length of this quadrant. Yeah
> well, that is just plain bogus. The French
> scientists made two huge mistakes: first, the
> meridian is neither uniform nor unchanging and
> second, they screwed up with their complicated
> measurements and were actually 30 meters off.
> Consequently, the French's beloved metric system is
> actually solely based on a platinum bar made to the
> incorrect specifications of their measurements of a
> changing item of nature. Regardless of these glaring
> errors, the French made the metric system law on Ap!
> ri!
> > l 7, 1795. Apparently, they were desperate to
> adopt a system of weights and measures. French
> politicians and scientists had been working for at
> least 500 years by this time to organize a uniform
> system of measurement. The French General Assembly
> of 1302 first articulated their desired measuring
> conspiracy with their distasteful motto: "One King,
> one Law, one Weight, one Measure." In 1790,
> Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, a member of France's
> Constituent Assembly, succeeded in persuading the
> French Academy of Sciences which claimed
> representatives from Spain, Italy, the Netherlands,
> Denmark, and Switzerland to accept the metric
> system. Talleyrand wanted to do this because he
> believed if other countries helped to establish the
> metric system, then they would be more likely to
> adopt it themselves. Luckily, England declined the
> invitation and saved us from total measuring
> conformity directed by the French.
> >
> > Although the metric system is slowly creeping
> into US culture, we have stood up to the French more
> than most other nations. Even though our monetary
> system is decimal and many stuffy old scientists may
> prefer the grams and meters, the US luckily retains
> her independence from the invasive French metric
> system.
> > >
> > > From: "Problah" <problah@zonenet.net>
> > > Date: 2002/09/04 Wed PM 10:57:03 EDT
> > > To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: N/A
> > >
> > > Well it's not figuring out the fraction that's
> the problem, I just divide to
> > > give me a decimal value (still in inches thoe)
> It's the standard system. It
> > > started because American wanted to be so
> different from the country they
> > > declared independance from that they even came
> up with a new form of
> > > calculations. It sucks. Metric is so much
> easier, everything really should be
> > > metric, everyone I've spoken to pretty much
> agrees except the hardcore
> > > patriots. I just don't care for measuring
> something in fractions, converting
> > > it to decimal, and then converting it to metric.
> It's pointless when the
> > > whole world uses metric, and we are the only
> country who doesn't. It really
> > > makes us and our equipment "Incompatible" in a
> sense. While I was building my
> > > ROV I used standard, and now that most of the
> equipment I want to buy fits up
> > > with metric, I now know what I'm going to use
> for my sub. It just makes it
> > > that much more easier, you know?
> > >
> > >
> > > Support your local zonenet
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Original Message -----------
> > > From: Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>
> > > To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> > > Sent: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 10:33:08 -0600
> > > Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: N/A
> > >
> > > > Did you know that five out of four people
> usually have problems with
> > > > fraction? So welcome to the club, man!
> > > > Carl
> > > >
> > > > Problah wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I hate fractions. Metric blows away all
> other scales!!!!
> > > > > Okay lessee. I'll give you my best estimate,
> but you're still going to
> > > want
> > > > > to dunk it. I'll just give you a max depth
> you can dunk it to if it hold
> > > at
> > > > > 165ft
> > > > > .3125 inches.
> > > > > doing it for .28125 to account for
> corrosion.
> > > > > 18.75inches radius.
> > > > > 120 inches long (hopefully that is between
> weld points.
> > > > > .3 steel with a flexibility of 3E7
> > > > > gives you:
> > > > > 239 to 266 ft. Dramatic difference, don't
> you agree?
> > > > > I think I may have not removed the ten
> percent from the original calc. I
> > > > > never said I was a genius. heh, but
> regardless the original spec I gave
> > > you
> > > > > tells a different story now that you've sent
> me all the info. I always
> > > > > recommend take half off of that for max
> operating depth. It's good to be
> > > > > safe, and 110 feet is where you start really
> losing light in some waters
> > > > > anyways.
> > > > > Good luck with your project, and definately
> make sure to get the saturated
> > > > > propane out of there, Temper it out if you
> have to, but that will change
> > > your
> > > > > flexibility, and 75 ft might be all you can
> really go.
> > > > >
> > > > > Support your local zonenet
> > > > >
> > > > > ---------- Original Message -----------
> > > > > From: majerus@iowatelecom.net
> > > > > To: <Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org>
> > > > > Sent: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:44:38 -0500
> > > > > Subject: N/A
> > > > >
> > > > > > The body is 37.5 inches round, 10 feet
> long, 5/16 thickness and
> > > > > > mild steel
> > > > > ------- End of Original Message -------
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > You're going to find that many of the truths
> we cling to depend greatly
> > > > on our own point of view."
> > > > -Obi-Wan Kenobi, ROTJ
> > > ------- End of Original Message -------
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Roger June
> > REJ and Company
> > rjune@fuse.net
> > 513-300-1189
>
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